Point Light help in scene

I'm doing a night scene and have the lighting for that taken care of. However I have 6 candles in the scene that I would like to give off light. I think I'd be using point light with this and would change the colour to give off a warm glow. However I seem to be screwing something up as when I put it around the flames on the candles it makes the flames black. I'm guessing putting the light on the flames doesn't work any idea of the best way to make my candles glow?

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If you put the light inside the mesh you will get the Black thing as you noticed. You will get a much better effect with a cluster of lights around your light source. You can then use lower settings on the lights that do not matter and still get a great render. This is easier to do than it sounds, use a blank scene with the candle object to set up the lights then delete all but the lights after you group them to a null. Save the set as a Scene file, then just merge as many sets as you need and place them into your working scene.

What a lot of people do is set the Ambient colour to white and Ambient strength to 100% for the flame material, then position the light just above the flames. If the flames are a separate prop or body part you can also turn off their cast Shadows setting, set the ambient as before, and put the light in the middle of the flame. Note that regular point lights taper off very quickly, especially with the default gamma setting, for candles I usually use a Linear Point Light and adjust the start and end distances to fill the area I'm interested in.

Another problem but running in the same lines. I have the lights set up the same on all six candles but only three candles are acknowledging the lights. The other three on the other side of the image act like there's nothing there.